Behavioural health falls under the realm of psychology and refers to the relation between human behavior and the overall well-being of the mind and body. Behavioural health practitioners include psychologists, psychiatrists, alcohol/drug abuse counselors, marriage counselors and so on. With a large number of people in India suffering from some form of mental health disorder, psychiatrists and mental health practitioners are much in demand these days, especially in urban regions. At the same time, there is a serious shortage of such practitioners in the country, along with consistently bad conditions prevailing in the country’s mental health institutions. Thus, the need of the hour is more trained mental and general behavioural health practitioners and nurses to achieve a better patient-doctor ratio in this regard. Hide this